Engage Digital Wrap-Up For The Week Of April 23, 2011

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Welcome to the Engage Digital Wrap-Up for the week of April 23, 2011. The Wrap-Up is where Engage Digital spotlights stories that we didn’t get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the business of user engagement. Avatar Reality Appoints Tetris Popularizer Henk Rogers As CEO: Blue Mars Mobile developer Avatar Reality [...]

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MindJolt Acquires SGN, Hallpass

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Social gaming firm MindJolt has acquired mobile social developer SGN and online game portal Hallpass Media, each for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition effectively doubles MindJolt’s headcount to 80, gives it four million new users, and adds over 1500 new games to its network. MindJolt strengthens its mobile presence through SGN, whose apps like MiniTycoon [...]

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GREE Acquires OpenFeint For $104M

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Japanese mobile social network GREE has acquired American smartphone mobile social gaming network OpenFeint for $104 million, as part of a process called a triangular merger. GREE says it is Japan’s leading mobile social network with over 25 million users and a market cap of over $3 billion. OpenFeint likewise says it is the largest [...]

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GoldRun Raises $1.1M For Augmented Reality

By On April 11, 2011 · 1 Comment

Augmented reality platform GoldRun has raised a $1.1 million round of angel funding. Participants include Ed Mathias of The Carlyle Group, Jon Ledecky, United Talent Agency founding partner Jeremy Zimmer, former Sunglass Hut CEO and chairman Jim Hauslein, and Venturehouse Group CEO Mark Ein. Mathias and Zimmer will join GoldRun’s board of directors as part [...]

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Engage Digital Wrap-Up For The Week Of April 9, 2011

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Welcome to the Engage Digital Wrap-Up for the week of April 9, 2011. The Wrap-Up is where Engage Digital spotlights stories that we didn’t get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the business of user engagement. 700,000 Join World Of Tanks Beta: Wargaming.net announced that over 700,000 players participated in the [...]

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Engage Digital Wrap-Up For The Week Of April 1, 2011

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Welcome to the Engage Digital Wrap-Up for the week of April 1, 2011. The Wrap-Up is where Engage Digital spotlights stories that we didn’t get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the business of user engagement. Applifier Launches A Portal To Discover Social Games On Facebook: Applifier is launching Games on [...]

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OpenFeint Announces 14 More Android Titles

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Mobile social gaming network OpenFeint announced that it helped publish 14 new games for Android in March as part of its development partnership with The9. OpenFeint has added over 215 games to its Android network since November, for a grand total of 315 games supported. “At first, indie game developers chose iOS because it was [...]

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Sulake 2010 Revenue Up 20%

By On March 31, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Habbo Hotel parent company Sulake has announced its 2010 financial results, with revenue up 20% to $78.7 million. The company’s net profits for 2010 were $2.3 million. Sulake credits its growth to the launch of new features in Habbo Hotel, which is available in 11 different languages and 150 different countries. “This year, our focus will [...]

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Engage Digital Wrap-Up For The Week Of March 26, 2011

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Welcome to the Engage Digital Wrap-Up for the week of March 26, 2011. The Wrap-Up is where Engage Digital spotlights stories that we didn’t get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the business of user engagement. APB Reloaded Beta Sees 250,000 Applicants: Reloaded Productions is reporting that it has received over [...]

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Joymax Acquires IO Entertainment

By On March 24, 2011 · 1 Comment

Korean MMO developer Joymax has acquired rival developer IO Entertainment, creator of MMOs including Lost Saga and Survival Project. This acquisition comes roughly a month after Joymax’s merger with WeMade, creator of the Legend of Mir MMO series. IO Entertainment was founded in 2001 and specializes in games with action-oriented gameplay. IO’s Lost Saga is [...]

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